Not who I was rooting for, but Roadrunner will be a great Protestant.
I guess we don't need to mess with spoilers since she had a pretty commanding lead, anyway (her follower collection was impressive) but I have to admit, I was still thinking Bix Beetleman could pull off a win up until the end. Although I would've felt sad if Roadrunner had not won, I wasn't really pulling for her either. Bix was my guy through the whole game and, oddly, I started to feel a bit for Lefty towards the end. Maybe because he became an underdog. All good characters, though, (I can see why you'd like Smiley- she was a charmer) and I agree, Roadrunner will make a wonderful Protestant, especially from a modern perspective. I didn't think about it until now, but Bix would've faired well as a Martin Luther stand in. The indignation and religious-related rebellion are totally his bag. I've been excited to shout, "Here I Stand!" when Martin Luther takes the place of a debater. I think, although he failed, I will hear that shout in Bix Beetleman's voice when the time comes.
I guess we don't need to mess with spoilers since she had a pretty commanding lead, anyway (her follower collection was impressive) but I have to admit, I was still thinking Bix Beetleman could pull off a win up until the end. Although I would've felt sad if Roadrunner had not won, I wasn't really pulling for her either. Bix was my guy through the whole game and, oddly, I started to feel a bit for Lefty towards the end. Maybe because he became an underdog. All good characters, though, (I can see why you'd like Smiley- she was a charmer) and I agree, Roadrunner will make a wonderful Protestant, especially from a modern perspective. I didn't think about it until now, but Bix would've faired well as a Martin Luther stand in. The indignation and religious-related rebellion are totally his bag. I've been excited to shout, "Here I Stand!" when Martin Luther takes the place of a debater. I think, although he failed, I will hear that shout in Bix Beetleman's voice when the time comes.
Crap, sorry about that. Fixed it in my post.
You're right though, maybe he could have finagled something, but it was a pretty sure thing.
You're right though, maybe he could have finagled something, but it was a pretty sure thing.
Oh, I wasn't trying to imply you needed to fix anything, but I guess for all the people who are going to become interested in Solitaire Mega Tournament's in the years to come, it's maybe for the best.
I have the game set up still. I may, since Roadrunner had that alternate reality excursion, try an alternate reality of my own- what if the other tile had been drawn?
All evening I've been humming something over and over and I couldn't figure out what it was. For a while I thought it must be a video game anthem bleeding through from my youth. NAY! Twas the song of victory from The Conquest of Gheos Earth.
Ba-da-da-da Da-da-da-da Da Da Da Da-da-da-da-da Da-da-da-da-
All evening I've been humming something over and over and I couldn't figure out what it was. For a while I thought it must be a video game anthem bleeding through from my youth. NAY! Twas the song of victory from The Conquest of Gheos Earth.
Ba-da-da-da Da-da-da-da Da Da Da Da-da-da-da-da Da-da-da-da-
Hee! I know, catchy right? That particular number is Captain Fantastic's theme- definitely the most vicious earworm of the bunch, but I've kind of been living in Mary Beth Magallanes soundtrack for a couple weeks now- a fun collection of music. I kind of want to get the other Flying Frog games just to hear what she did for those genres.
So I just got back from checking if Bix Beetleman had any hope of winning had the game not ended on Smiley's turn. I discovered a few things. First of all, I had the board set up wrong. The home boards should've all had only one space adjacent to the center board. I don't think it impacted the game at all, but it could've changed both how difficult it was for Bix Beetleman and Roadrunner to access the center as well as changed the difficulty (made it easier) in defending their earlier captures. Since no one touched each other's boards for the most part, save Smiley on Roadrunner, it didn't matter. It would've been another sadness, however, if Roadrunner had lost (Smiley would've had a harder time stealing that terror point if I'd set the game up right.)
As for Bix, he had no cards that were useful for him to play. The only way he could increase his Terror Multiplier was by taking from Lefty which would've gave him a total multiplier of 12 if he'd been successful (which is likely.) That would not be enough to cause him to score higher than Roadrunner. As far as Gheos portion of his turn goes, there was also no way he could score higher than her. He had one white follower and she had two white and two red (they both had other followers, but they were irrelevant at this point in the game). He could've made it so either red or white didn't score, but that wouldn't've given him the lead. If he incapacitated white, he wouldn't score either, and Roadrunner still would've scored Red. If he incapacitated Red, Roadrunner still had twice as many white as he did. There was no way he could've won at that point in the game.
I would submit, however, that he won in the way of prophets. He established the white civilization with its pyramids at the beginning of the game- a civilization that went extinct and returned on more than one occasion throughout the game, always appearing in the same basic continent space. Although those extinctions cost him his white followers, which he had in the majority at the beginning of the game, in a way, they were still his spiritual descendants. They were his in the beginning and, although they lost the specifics of their way; namely, Bix Beetleman, they followed the path he set out for them and were a successful race, even if they forgot the one who showed him the way. Bix Beetleman was ahead of his time. We'll see how he survives in the great outdoors...
Posted Thu Sep 22, 2011 6:32 pm
